Connexions/Rhaptos Sprint February 10th, Houston TX

Calling all developers. Come join us after the Connexions Conference 2011 , for a coding sprint, on February 10th from 9 AM to 3 PM in Houston at Rice University. We will have a mix of expert Rhaptos/Connexions developers, Plone and Zope developers, and new developers, just getting started with Rhaptos. We will be continuing the Plone 4 upgrade sprint started in Bristol under the direction of Upfront Systems. For new developers, we will have some juicy bugs to tackle with the help of expert partners. And for both developers and designers, we will be working with some prototype editors for creating Connexions content. User experience practitioners are welcome also. In addition to the editors, we will have usability bugs to decipher and solve.

If you can't make it to Houston, but would like to participate remotely, we will have an IRC chat and a Skype voice session set up.

Please let us know by emailing cnx@cnx.org, if you would like to participate and we will send instructions late this week about a few things you can set up before the sprint to get ready.

Hope to see you Thursday after next!

Sprint with Us

Calling all developers. Come join us at the Plone Conference in Bristol, UK, October 25th to the 31st. Connexions and Connexions Consortium board member, Upfront Systems, will be running a sprint at the upcoming Plone conference. The topic is "Migrating Rhaptos to Plone 4" and should be interesting to all Rhaptos and Connexions developers, those wanting to learn about Rhaptos/Connexions development, and to Plone developers interested in migration to Plone 4.

If you miss us in Bristol, join us at the Connexions Conference, February 9th, and stay for a sprint on February 10th. We plan to have sprints regularly to help grow the developer community around Connexions and Rhaptos.

And, look for us in May at the Plone East Symposium at Pennsylvania State University. Sprints are May 20th and 21st, 2011.

Connexions/Rhaptos Sprint Topics at Plone Conference 2010

Connexions plans to organize a sprint on Connexions and Rhaptos development at the Eighth Annual Plone Conference in Bristol, UK (October 25th - 31st). We would like to hear your ideas for topics to sprint on. We also want to know whether you plan to attend the conference this year and would be interested in learning more about Rhaptos and Connexions and getting some experience coding. Our goal would be to increase the pool of developers familiar with Rhaptos, let experienced developers get to know each other better, and explore topics that may become development priorities in the future. Some of the topic ideas we have been considering include integrating an HTML editor that converts to our document XML (CNXML), implementing an existing specification for enhancing member profile pages (Author profiles), migrating to Plone 3 or Plone 4, or working on some aspect of internationalization. Post your thoughts here, email me, kef at cnx dot org, or email our developer mailing list (go here to join). We will send out more detailed ideas in a future post.